Cheapest€15.03
- JSP Skopje JS236706:353h 57m10:32Sofia Central Bus StationАвтогара Юг
Door to door 4h 41mCO2 7.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Sofia to Rousse bus
Buses from Sofia to Rousse start at €17.78 and take 4h 37m at their fastest.
The Buses from Sofia to Rousse starts at €17.78 and takes 4h 37m door to door, run by 2 operators over 286 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 4h 37mDoor to door
- 3h 53mMoving
- €17.78From
- 7.7 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 22 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Fastest€16.68
- FlixBus FB603706:223h 53m10:15Sofia Central Bus StationАвтогара Юг
Door to door 4h 37mCO2 7.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
 FlixBus | €16.13 | 4h 31m |
| JSP Skopje | €15.03 | 4h 32m |
The journey ends at Ruse. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Rousse for the night the coach gets in
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When to book Sofia to Rousse
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €17.7890 days
- €15.0360 days
- €15.5845 days
- €12.8330 days
- €16.1321 days
- €18.3314 days
- €21.087 days
- €33.733 days
- €32.631 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.83.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 163 percent. The dearest point is €33.73, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €19.98Sun
- €18.33Mon
- €17.78Tue
- €18.88Wed
- €22.73Thu
- €22.73Fri
- €21.08Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Sofia
Coach
- Sofia Central Bus Station
- спирка Ехо
Ruse
Coach
- Автогара Юг
- Автогара Изток
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 286 km against 248 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Varna, Stara Zagora, Plovdiv, Burgas. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Sofia at 06:22 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Sofia to Rousse
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Coach from Sofia to Rousse take?
The Coach from Sofia to Rousse takes 4h 37m door to door, of which 3h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 286 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Coach from Sofia to Rousse cost?
The Coach from Sofia to Rousse starts at €17.78 for one passenger, checked on 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €24.93. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Sofia to Rousse?
2 operators run the Coach from Sofia to Rousse: FlixBus, JSP Skopje. Between them they file around 6 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Sofia to Rousse use?
The Coach from Sofia to Rousse leaves from Sofia Central Bus Station and arrives at Автогара Юг. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Coach from Sofia to Rousse?
Fares for the Coach from Sofia to Rousse bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €12.83. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 163 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Sofia to Rousse produce?
The Coach from Sofia to Rousse produces about 7.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 286 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Sofia to Rousse?
Operators on the Coach from Sofia to Rousse publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 37m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Sofia to Rousse on 7 September 2026: 286 km of route against 248 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €17.78, and 4h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Related journeys
The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Rousse is somebody else's catalogue.
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